The bucket list is a simple concept. What do you want to have done in your life before you “kick the bucket?”
I’ve talked about Bucket Lists before, but today I thought I’d do something special and share mine (well some of it).
Life is fleeting. The older we get the faster it seems to go. We all think we have more time than we actually have.
Bucket lists are like ultimate goals. They should be fun, inspiring or challenging. They should give you memories and experiences. They don’t all have to be big. It’s not the size of the experience that matters.
Your bucket list should be personal to you. I once wrote an older Bucket List on an online journal site. A friend of mine then came through and picked it apart stating why he wouldn’t do a lot of them. Weird… since it was MY bucket list. Of course, he wouldn’t.
It doesn’t matter what’s on your bucket list. Some of them might seem small, or insignificant to other people. But it’s your list. These are the experiences you want to have.
You should check in to your bucket list every year. Don’t keep putting it off. Try to do something every year at least.
My full bucket list is actually 100. But some of them I’m keeping private. But here are 71 things on that list, with the ones I’ve completed crossed off.
01 Learn how to juggle
02 Ride a horse – DONE (several times including a midnight ride)
03 See the Northern Lights
04 Go on a Cruise
05 Solve a Rubix Cube
06 Fly a kite (as an Adult)
07 Visit Notre Dame cathedral
08 Make a movie
09 Ride in a gondola in Venice
10 Go Whale Watching
11 Get to know your neighbours – DONE (I always try to do this)
12 Go to the ballet – DONE (saw Swan Lake)
13 Climb a mountain
14 Go to see my fave band’s concert – DONE (saw Space when I was 17)
15 Plant a tree
16 Write & Publish a book
17 Learn to play the piano – DONE
18 Learn to play the violin
19 Visit a haunted location – DONE (went on a Ghost Tour)
20 Live in another country – DONE (Moved to N.Ireland)
21 Get a degree
22 Ride a rollercoaster – DONE (my fave is Nemesis)
23 Help a stranger in distress – DONE (twice)
24 Paint a picture
25 Go to Disney World – DONE
26 Try Rock Climbing – DONE (I hated it)
27 Watch 200 movies from within the Criterion Collection
28 Read all the the Discworld Books
29 Sing Karaoke – DONE (horrifying for everyone involved)
30 Ride on a motorbike
31 Ride in a hot air balloon
32 Run a half marathon
33 Own my own business – DONE
34 Fly an aeroplane
35 Fly in a helicopter
36 Go on safari
37 Learn sign language
38 Visit Stonehenge
39 Visit the marble caves
40 Solve a hedge maze
41 Get a tattoo – DONE
42 Give blood
43 Go on a stargazing date
44 Go camping – DONE (not a fan)
45 Visit the little museum of Dublin
46 Visit 3 countries outside of the UK – DONE (Kos, USA, Gran Canaria)
47 Carve a pumpkin
48 Swim in the sea – DONE
49 Learn archery – DONE
50 Make a Family tree
51 Buy a house – DONE (bought a house at 18)
52 Try Pottery – DONE
53 See an active volcano
54 Watch a St. Patrick’s Day parade – DONE (last year in Ireland)
55 Visit the Titanic Museum in Belfast – DONE
56 Visit Ballynoe Stone Circle – DONE
57 Teach a class – DONE
58 Go to a casino
59 Go on a real picnic
60 Dine in a dining train
61 Go on a canal boat – DONE
62 Travel to another country alone – DONE
63 Watch a meteor shower
64 Quit a job – DONE (twice)
65 Make a snowman – DONE (& a snow fox and snow dragon)
66 Visit the Giant’s Causeway
67 Learn how to play poker
68 Cross the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
69 Create a mural
70 Do a Photo-A-Day Challenge
71 Complete my bucket list
Total completed = 28 out of 71
Do you have a bucket list you’re actively completing?
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surprisingly, I’ve done 40 of the things on your list! some i’d never do as that’s not where my interests lie but i do love a good bucket list. Having lost a fairly young relative suddenly last week, it’s important to live a full life- you never know when your number is up.
Thanks for reading, Laura. I am so sorry to hear of your recent loss, that must be so heartbreaking.
Just before Xmas we learnt a family member had terminal cancer and only 3 months to live. It is always a shock to learn such things and does remind you of how finite life is.
Thank you, my thoughts are with you too. Does make you realise a few things.
You missed one: Visit Deception Pass Bridge in Northern Washington.
It was my hang out as a kid many moons ago. You will not be disappointed. 🙂
Thanks for reading, Bryan lol I don’t think I can add that. Due to my crippling fear of travelling. I doubt I’ve travel further than Europe (if at all). All my earlier travelling was done when I was younger and my issue with travelling as just gotten worse.
Do you have a bucket list?
FYI: I’ll be in London this summer.
This post was so much fun, Ari! I like how some things on your bucket list are small and doable, but also super awesome like donating blood. I actually had that on my bucket list too because I thought it would hurt, but I finally did it last year and it didn’t hurt at all! Like I couldn’t feel the needle one bit. I did pass out though because I didn’t weigh enough…and half marathon is on my 2019 goal list. 🙂 So many little fun ways to make the most out of life. I hope you get to cross all of them off someday!
Thanks for reading, Madeline. 😀 Oh yes, I made sure to include small, fun tasks as well. I think a bucket list that is all large, adventurous and/or expensive tasks can be overwhelming and less likely to be completed. It’s more about the memories and experience and they don’t all have to be big to be good experiences.
I’ve had donate blood for a while, for a long time I was too low in weight to do it and now I’m just trying to get over my needle phobia and the horrid sensation of feeling the blood drawn. I am very sensitive and can always feel things like that and it makes me really nauseous,.. but I will do it… eventually 🙂
Good luck on your half marathon, that is awesome!! 😀
I hate getting blood taken for blood tests — I can feel the blood coming out of my arm (sorry that sounds gross!). But when I donated my blood I didn’t feel a single thing. I promise you’ll be so proud of yourself if it’s something you ever end up doing. It’s not as bad as you think. 🙂
Thanks Madeline. Yes, I will definitely be doing. 😊
I love that list! Really and I am very pleased to have learned what Bucket-List actually means. In Germany instead of “kick the bucket” we say “den Löffel abgeben”. It isn’t quite polite but very common;)
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All the best
Laureen
Thanks for reading, Laureen. I am glad to have been able to share the meaning behind Kick the Bucket 🙂
I want to see the northern lights and Venice too. I’ve also been to Disney World. I’d love to learn to ride a horse and dive.
And obviously publish a book too. 😁
Thanks Lorraine. Do you have a lot on your bucket list? I have always been on the fence with diving. My brother does it and loves it and I do love the water, but I’m still not sure. And you will DEFINITELY get that book published!
I haven’t planned a bucket list, I try to push my boundaries and see where it takes me. One wish at a time. 😊
And thank you Ari. 😊
That is a list I could cope with and I have done quite a few of them – but volcanos or hot air balloon, no! Giving blood is easy, I’ve been doing it since I was eighteen because we were brought up on the story of my little sister’s birth and the 8 pints of blood Mum needed!
Thanks for reading. 🙂 Was fun sharing this. lol I’m glad you find giving blood easy. It’s definitely not for me. With a needle phobia and a skin sensitivity that makes me feel when blood is drawn or fluids are given makes me physically nauseous.
Give me a hot air balloon ride over a volcano any day over giving blood. But I am going to do it. Definitely. lol
Wow! Ari! I’m in awe of all the places you have visited. I have a list of many places I would love to visit before I die: Britain, Canada, and Turkey tops the chart.
I hope I get to swim in a sea someday.
We must all have very different bucket lists; somewhere we live already is another person’s dream and it would be a dream to visit where they live! Swimming in the sea is wonderful Obinna, I hope you get to do it some day.
It’s another amusing irony of life!
Thank you. I hope so too. 😊
Thanks for reading, I’m so glad you enjoyed this post. I truly hope you get to see those countries and enjoy a swim in the sea.
I saw the “SF Masterworks Collection” goal and thought, “Ooh! That sounds like a great goal. I might add that to my bucket list.”
Then I looked it up and saw a Frank Herbert book I haven’t read already and gave up, haha.
Thanks for reading. lol I am not sure whether I’ll manage that one but I am going to try, I’m sure there will be some books on there that I just don’t care for